Sax

For us developers there plenty of libraries exist helping us in deriving and generating clients for existing RESTful web-services and I have already covered some of the in this blog (e.g. the JAX-RS Client API). Nevertheless, I’d like to share my experience with another interesting lightweight library here: Netflix Feign. Feign offers a nice fluent-builder API, a rich integration for common libraries and APIs like JAX-RS, Jackson, GSON, SAX, JAX-B, OkHttp, Ribbon, Hystrix, SLF4J and more and last bot not least, it is setup easy and the service contracts are specified using interfaces and annotations. ...

When there is XML to be parsed sometimes we’re chosing a DOM parser, sometimes a SAX parser and sometimes we’re using an XML pull parser, especially on Android. The following short snippet shows how to use the xpp3 xml pull parse to fetch some information in xml format from a public issue tracker and to extract issue details. Adding Dependencies Just one dependency needed here: xpp3 SBT Simply use the following build.sbt ...